B.A. English Literature Syllabus PDF

# Syllabus For Annual B.A Course in English Literature - B.A. Course in English Literature will be of three years - No. of Papers in B.A. Part I & II will be two each and in B.A. Part III three papers respectively - Each paper will be of 50 marks. ## Allahabad State University ### Syllabus for B...

# Syllabus For Annual B.A Course in English Literature - B.A. Course in English Literature will be of three years - No. of Papers in B.A. Part I & II will be two each and in B.A. Part III three papers respectively - Each paper will be of 50 marks. ## Allahabad State University ### Syllabus for B.A. I, II, III ### English Literature ### B.A. Part-I ### PAPER-I (POETRY) Introducing poetry, Types of Poetry and Stanza forms. ### Unit -I **(1)** Forms of Poetry : - The Sonnet - The Elegy - The Odd - The Epic - The Ballad - The Satire. - The Dramatic Monologue - Allegory **(2)** Stanza Forms: - The Heroic Couplet - The Blank Verse - The Spenserian Stanza ## Unit- II Elizabethan Period to the Restoration **(1)** William Shakespeare: Sonnet no. 116 'True Love' **(2)** John Donne: 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning'. **(3)** John Milton: 'On His Blindness'. ## Unit -III The Neo - Classical Age and the Pre- Romantics **(1)** Alexander Pope: Essay on then' (Excerpts) **(2)** Thomas Gray: 'Elegy written in a Country churchyard' **(3)** William Blake: 'The Tyger'. ## Unit- IV The Romantic Age **(1)** William Wordsworth: 'The World Is Too Much With Us'. **(2)** P.B. Shelley: Ode to the West Wind'. **(3)** John Keats " Ode to a Nightingale'. ## Recommended Text Book : Flights of Fancy Part-1 (FOR IST PAPER) - Ed. by: Dr. Ajita Bhattacharya & Dr. S.K.Pandey ## Recommended Readings: 1. Á Glossary of Literary Terms,' M.H. Abrams & Geoffrey Harpham, 11th Paperback edition. 2. 'A Poetry Handbook,' Mary Oliver, Paperback edition. 3. 'A Background to the Study of English Literature; Brijadish Prasad & Hari Priya Ramados, Revised edition, Paperback. 4. 'The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms' ed. Eavan Boland, Paperback, 2001. 5. 'Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form' (The New Critical Idiom) Ist Edition, Philip Hobsbaum. ' 6. 'English Romantic Poets, 'ed Meyer Abrams. 7. 'The Romantic Poets', Graham Hough. 8. 'William Wordsworth, Geoffrey Durant. 9. 'The Starlit Dome: Studies in the Poetry of Vision', G. Wilson Knight. 10. 'Oxford Lectures', A.C.Bradley. 11. 'John Keats'. Aileen Ward (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1963) 12. 'The Golden Treasury,' F.T. Palgrave. ## Question Paper Pattern - Q.NO.1-Ten short answer questions based on the entire course. 10x2-20marks. - Q.NO.2&3-Long answer questions on any two of the prescribed poets & poems.( There will be internal choices). 2x5=10marks. - Q.NO.4- Three explanation passages out of six from the poems prescribed. Candidates will have to attempt at least one from each unit.( unit II-IV). 3X5-15marks. - Q.NO.5-Critical appreciation of any one poem. 1x5=5marks. # B.A.- I ## Paper- II ## (Prose) ## (From the 16th Century to the 20th Century). ### Unit -I - Introducing Prose, Prose Styles and Prose Types: - Types of Prose and Prose style. - Autobiography/ Biography and Memoir. - Travelogue - Periodical Essay. - Formal Essay. - Personal Essay. ### Unit- II **(1)** F. Bacon - 'Of Studies' **(2)** R. Steele - 'The Spectator Club'. **(3)** J. Addison - 'Sri Roger at Church'. **(4)** Charles Lamb - 'Dream Children- A Reverie'. ### Unit - III **(1)** Dr. S. Johnson - 'Letter to Lord Chesterfield.' **(2)** William Hazlitt - 'On the Feeling Of Immortality In Youth.' **(3)** G.K. Chesterton- 'The Worship of the Wealthy. **(4)** A.G. Gardiner - 'On Shaking Hands'. ### Unit – IV **(1)** Robert Lynd - 'On not being a Philosopher'. **(2)** Aldous Huxley - 'Benares'. **(3)** J.B. Priestley = 'An Apology of Talkers'. **(4)** E.V. Lucas - 'Third Thoughts'. ## Recommended Text Book : Canvas of Expressions (FOR IInd PAPER) - Ed. by: Dr. S.k. Pandey & Dr. Ajita Bhattacharya ## Recommended Books for Reading : 1. 'The Advancement of Learning,' Sir Francis Bacon. 2. "The works of Francis Bacon,' Ed. James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, Cambridge. 3. 'The Essays of Francis Bacon,' Francis Bacon, Paperback, 2014. 4. 'The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers from the Spectator,' Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, Paperback edition. 5. 'Essays of Elia,' Charles Lamb, Paperback, 2014. 6. 'Charles Lamb: Essays of Elia,' Dr. S.Sen, Paperback, 2014. 7. 'The Life of Samuel Johnson,' James Boswell, (Penguin Classics), 2008. 8. 'The Lives of the most Eminent English Poets, Samuel Johnson. 9. 'Hazlitt's Essay: A Selection,'(Classic Reprint, William Hazlitt, Paperback, 2015. 10. 'The Collected Works of William Hazlitt's,' W. Hazlitt, Alfred Rayney Waller, Arnold Glover, Paperback. 11. 'Hazlitt,' Ralph M. Wardle, University of Nebraska Press, 1971. 12. 'Selected Writings, William Hazlitt & Jon Cook, OUP, 1991. 13. 'The G.K. Chesterton Collection' [50 Books], G.K. Chesterton, Catholic Way Publishing. 14. 'G.K. Chesterton, A Critical Study', Julius West, Paperback, 2017. ## Question Paper Pattern - Q.NO.1-Ten short answer questions based on the entire course. 10x2-20marks. - Q.NO2&3- Long answer questions on any two of the prescribed essays and essayists. 2x5=10marks. - Q.NO.4-Three explanation passages out of six from the essays prescribed. Candidates will have to attempt at least one from each unit.( unit II-1V). 3X4-12marks. - Q.NO.5-Eight objective with optional answers. 8x1=8marks. # B.A. - II ## Paper- I ## (Poetry) ### Unit -I - The Victorian Age. - (1) Alfred, Lord Tennyson, : 'Break, Break, Break' : 'Crossing the Bar' - (2) Robert Browning: : 'Prospect' : 'My Last Duchess' ### Unit- II - (1) Mathew Arnold: ; 'Dover Beach' : 'Shakespeare'. - (2) G.M. Hopkins: 'Windhover' : 'Thou art Indeed Just, My Lord' ### Unit- III - (1) W.B. Yeats : ;'The Lake Isle of Innis free' ;'The Second Coming' - (2) T.S. Eliot : 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' ### Unit- IV - (1) W.H. Auden : 'The Unknown Citizen' 'Look stranger' - (2) Ted Hughes ; 'Hawk Roosting' 'The Jaguar'. ## Recommended TEXT BOOK: Flights of Fancy PART-2 - Ed. by: Dr. Ajita Bhattacharya & Dr. S.K. Pandey # B.A. II ## English Literature ## (Paper - II) ## Drama ### Unit- I - Introducing Drama, Elements of Drama, Types of Drama: - (1) Tragedy and Types. - (2) Comedy and Types. - (3) Tragi- Comedy. - (4) Expressionist Drama - (5) Drama of Ideas. - (6) Poetic Drama - (7) Closet Drama - (8) The Problem Play. - (9) Theatre of the Absurd. - (10) The Curtain Raiser (One Act Play) ### Unit - II - Shakespeare: 'Macbeth' ### Unit- III - Goldsmith: 'She Stoops to Conquer'. ### Unit- IV - G.B. Shaw: 'Arms and the Man' ## Question Paper Pattern - Q.NO.1- Ten short answer questions based on the entire course. 10x2-20marks. - Q.NO.2&3-Long answer questions on any two of the prescribed poets. (Internal choices will be given). 2x5=10marks. - Q.NO.4- Four explanation passages out of eight from poems prescribed. Candidates will have to attempt at least one from each unit. 4x3=12marks. - Q.NO.5- Critical appreciation of any one poem. 1x8-8marks. # B.A.-III: English Literature ## Paper-I ## History of English Literature - Unit-I : From Renaissance to Seventeenth Century . - Renaissance and Reformation - Miracle and Morality plays - University Wits - Elizabethan Poetry - Metaphysical Poetry - Neo- Classicism - Unit-II : Eighteenth Century and the Romantic Age. - Growth of the Novel - Precursors of Romanticism - Romanticism and the French Revolution - Growth of Romantic Literature (Prose, Poetry, Drama and Novel) - Unit-II : Nineteenth Century. - Characteristics of Victorian Age - Growth of Victorian Literature (Prose, Poetry, Drama and Novel) - Pre-Raphaelite Poetry. - Unit-IV : Naughty Nineties - The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries . - Trends in Twentieth Century Literature with Special reference to Georgian Poetry, Imagism and Symbolism. - Twentieth Century Novel, Psychological Novel, Stream- of- consciousness Novel. - Twentieth Century Drama, Probleın Play, Drama of Ideas, Theatre of the Absurd, Expressionism, Epic Theatre, Poetic Drama. - Growth of Post-Colonial Literature: Feminism, Post-Modernism etc. ## Question Paper Pattern - Q.NO1- Ten short answer questions based on the entire course. 10x2-20marks. - Q.NO.1 to 4 – One long answer question from each unit. 4x71/2=30marks. # B.A. Part - III ## English Literature ## Paper- II ## (Fiction) - Unit - I - Introducing Fiction, Forms and Techniques, Elements of Novel, Elements of short story. Type of Novel - Picaresque, Historical, Epistolary, Regional, Detective, Science, Meta- Fiction. - Unit - II - Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice - Unit- III - Charles Dickens : Oliver Twist. - Unit - IV - George Orwell : Animal Farm. ## Question Paper Pattern - Q.NO.1- Ten short answer questions based on the entire course. 10x2=20marks. - Q.NO.2-4- Three long answer questions on prescribed novels. 3x8-24marks. - Q.NO.5- One question on forms and technique of novel. 1x6=6marks. # B.A. Part - III ## English Literature ## Paper- III ## Indian Writings in English - Unit - I Poetry - (1) R.N. Tagore : FROM 'GITANJALI' ( LYRIC NO.-11): "Leave this chanting and singing." - (2) Nissim Ezekiel : 'Night of the Scorpion'. - (3) A.K.Ramanujan : 'Small Scale Reflections on a great House'. - (4) Kamala Das : 'Introduction'. - Unit- II Drama - Mahesh Dattani : 'Seven Steps Around the Fire'. - Unit-III Fiction - M.R. Anand : 'The Untouchable'. - Unit - IV Prose - Nehru : My Autobiography' ('What is Religion?") . ## Question Paper Pattern - Q.NO.1-Ten short answer questions based on the entire course. 10x2=20marks. - Q.NO.2- Three passages for explanation from each unit( unit I,II,IV). Candidates will have to attempt atleast one from each unit out of the given choices. 3x5=15marks. - Q.NO 3-5- One long answer question from each from unit-I,II & III. 3X5=15marks.